| Haltwhistle |
1917-06-02 |
The Blackett Colliery at Haltwhistle was to close shortly and the large numbers of miners were to be given jobs at neighbouring pits. |
| Haltwhistle |
1919-04-05 |
Captain R. B. Webster of Unthank Hall, Haltwhistle, gave ?1,000 towards the Haltwhistle War Memorial Hospital. |
| Haltwhistle |
1923-09-04 |
A garden fete held at the War Memorial to mark its first birthday raised ?49 for hospital funds. |
| Haltwhistle |
1924-04-30 |
A worker at the South Tyne Colliery died after falling down a 500 foot shaft. He must have taken a wrong turning while pushing a tub of coal through the pit, an inquest heard. |
| Haltwhistle |
1924-06-07 |
The jubilee celebrations (100 years) of Cowburn Primitive Methodist Chapel were celebrated. |
| Haltwhistle |
1926-05-04 |
About 170 trees were uprooted outside Haltwhistle to reveal the new war memorial. |
| Haltwhistle |
1926-08-03 |
Mr. Justice Rober, sitting at Carlisle, made an order for the closing down of Plenmeller Colliery and at a meeting of the Haltwhistle Guardians this was described as a very serious matter for Haltwhistle. |
| Haltwhistle |
1926-09-06 |
Men resumed work at Plenmellor Colliery, where 600 men and lads were employed. |
| Haltwhistle |
1926-09-28 |
South Tyne Colliery miners agreed at a mass meeting to go back to work. They were among the last miners in the district to return after the long strike of 1926. |
| Haltwhistle |
1926-10-09 |
More local pits resumed work ? South Tyne, employing 600 men, Plenmellor, Barcombe at Bardon Mill, Morwood, Lambley, Midgeholme, Byron at Greenhead. Cf. 23/10/1926, 13/11/1926, 14/05/1927. |
| Haltwhistle |
1927-01-18 |
The fortunes of Haltwhistle Town Band were at such a low ebb that members had to return the instruments they hoped to buy to the shop. |
| Haltwhistle |
1928-04-21 |
Sale announced of the Common House Inn with two bedrooms and five acres of land on Thursday 26th April 1928. |
| Haltwhistle |
1928-06-20 |
A garage together with eight buses, two cars and two motorcycles worth a total of ?20,000 were destroyed in a fire on Aesica Road. |
| Haltwhistle |
1928-08-29 |
A ceremony was held to inaugurate a three-valve, 21 head-set wireless radio at Haltwhistle War Memorial hospital. It was built at a cost of ?35 and was expected to give great pleasure to patients and staff. |
| Haltwhistle |
1928-11-24 |
South Tyne Colliery to close in 14 days (compare 08/12/1928). |
| Haltwhistle |
1928-12-12 |
South Tyne Colliery teetered on the brink of closure by operating on an unstable day-to-day basis. As one of the oldest pits in the country, employing 600 men and lads, it was at a distinct disadvantage compared with other collieries, as it was located far away from the shipping ports and therefore incurred heavy freight charges. |
| Haltwhistle |
1929-11-19 |
There were complaints at Haltwhistle Parish Council meeting about the smell from burning colliery heaps around the town ? but another councillor said it was not as bad as the smell from the varnish works. |
| Haltwhistle |
1932-12-14 |
An automated telephone exchange brought into service for the 49 subscribers in Haltwhistle allowed them direct access to each other and the rest of the world. |
| Haltwhistle |
1935-04-20 |
Broomlee Lough was to be used as a reservoir for Haltwhistle. |
| Haltwhistle |
1935-05-04 |
Retirement of the ?Roman Wall postman? Henry Harbin after 43 years? service. |
